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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!daffy!uwvax!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!oracle.pnl.gov!mica.inel.gov!cwis.isu.edu!news.cc.utah.edu!news.cs.utah.edu!sal.cs.utah.edu!kruckenb From: kruckenb@sal.cs.utah.edu (Pete Kruckenberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Recommendations for sharing users' WWW directories? Date: 15 Jun 1995 18:09:20 GMT Organization: University of Utah Computer Science Department Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3rpt0g$156@magus.cs.utah.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sal.cs.utah.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I'm setting up two machines as an Internet service business. Machine one (user server) will be running BSDI for user processes only. Machine two (WWW/ftp/news server) will be running FreeBSD 2.0.5R, Inn-1.4sec, Apache httpd, and wu-ftpd. My question is, what's the best way to share file systems between these two, so that users can put stuff up on the WWW and ftp server? The easy way would be to NFS-mount their user directories on the WWW server, which would let them directly access their directories via FTP, and the Web server could reach them via $HOME/public_html. If I do it this way, what kind of problems might I have? Would I need to use NIS to share passwords from the user server? I would only want users to be able to ftp to the ftp machine, not telnet--how could I accomplish this? Are there better ways to do this? Any recommendations are appreciated. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Pete Kruckenberg kruckenb@sal.cs.utah.edu University of Utah pete@dsw.com Computer Engineering